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Waitress
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/Sorry to interrupt...but would you like another drink?
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Both
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(As if rehearsed.) Yes.
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Waitress
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Fab, same again?
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Both
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Yes.
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Waitress
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So whisky and orange juice and a large pinot?
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Tony
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That would be lovely thank you.
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Gwawr
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As if ─ I thought that was just orange juice.
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Tony
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I wasn't trying to deceive you.
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Gwawr
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Sure.
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Beat.
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Dad
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You look just like her, you know.
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Gwawr
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Who?
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Dad
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Your great-grandmother,
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Gwawr
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Do I?
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Dad
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A few generations ago we were slaves and my great-grandfather, he was like a landowner and I think he was almost, more or less, pure white, he was.
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Gwawr
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I mean, I assumed we were slaves at some point but I never actually, you know, heard it out loud.
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Dad
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Caribbean and black slavery doesn't worry me as much as some people take it to heart. I know that it was a great evil and it needs to be compensated for or what not, but I'm pragmatic to the point where you know … everyone be a bastard in that age, everybody took slaves, even Africans ─ we just got the sharp end of the stick.
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Gwawr
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What!? How can you compare … I've been watching this documentary, right, and I don't think a lot of people think like you. I don't think like you. You can't compare Africans having slaves to the entire British Empire, what they … (she corrects herself) … we did.
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The documentary begins again. This time interviewing a Jamaican who moved to Wales.
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Presenter
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We are now speaking to Eleanor Nicholson, a Negro immigrant from Jamaica, married to a White Welsh Man. Eleanor how did you find integrating into British life?
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Jamaican Woman
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When I first arrived, everywhere around me were the 'monuments' of the plunder of my people – the European pirate-heroes, the slave-built castles, and the continuation of the subjection of black and coloured peoples.
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Presenter
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You seem very educated, Eleanor ─ must have been part of the reason your white husband took such a liking to you/
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Jamaican Woman
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/John wanted us to get married from the moment he realised how we felt about each other. He said he didn't want anyone to be confused that this was a slave-plantation type situation all over again.
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